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Inigo Jones and Wren; or, The rise and decline of modern architecture in England (1893)

Loftie, W. J. (William John), 1839-1911 · New York, Macmillan and co. · leaf 288

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ly to achieve, are now shunned by allfor their intense ugliness. The fact is, we had the styleand we had the demand, but, and this is after all the importantthing, we had not an artist to answer to the call. True, as Ihave already remarked, an architect in Grecian of great power,named Thomson,… … s <c < I: too 5

Jones, Inigo, 1573-1652 · Wren, Christopher, Sir, 1632-1723 · Architecture

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